Show Fifty Years of Crime Seine time ago Clarence Darrow I I i problem on being asked a about out our crim crime lem en said slid lh that t during Juring my en haLf tury If tury ury of f practice society has made no noi iO i material advance in treatment of i crime and the criminal i i Ills His opinion is in striking contrast ih the activities of reformers ho I s1 nd much of their time devising I for the disease e of crime f fIn In that half century of v Mr Darrow speakers thousands of crim- crim criminal crim criminal inal laws have gone on the I books Panaceas have ha been offered an and many of them then accepted I ve vet crime continues and flourishes And Ever Every new law passed means more breaking breaking Jaw The number of people for tor example who have been made law-breakers law by such ordinances as those designed to prevent ownership of revolvers and I pistols cannot be estimated Yet Yeti i such such laws arc are proposed to crime But who ever over heard beard of a crim crimins inal ins payin paying any attention to gun anti anti anti- anti gunlaw d I law An automobile anti-automobile law would b as sensible on the theory that if automobiles were taken away from nil abiding ul law abiding citizens the crimm criminal 1 would oud thereby be deprived of their I we use in his depredations i Mere multiplicity of laws do not deter the criminal He will have his gun and 2nd his automobile though the statute books sag with enact enact- ena enactments t- t tI com corn commodities ments forbidding him those Freak laws make all laws less respected We need fewer laws but with shar- shar sharper shar sharper per teeth to punish criminals if we wish to check crime not laws to de- de destroy destroy de destroy stroy rights and privileges of lawi law- law abiding citizens |